Hi everyone 👋 I'm Ian, the maker. I built BlackoutPDF because every "free PDF redactor" I found asked me to upload the exact document I was trying to keep private — and then "redacted" it by drawing a black box over text you can still select and copy underneath. That's how supposedly-redacted court filings keep leaking. BlackoutPDF works the opposite way: • Nothing is uploaded. The file is opened, redacted, and saved entirely in your browser tab. Don't take my word for it — open DevTools → Network and watch, or just turn off your Wi-Fi and it keeps working. • Redaction is destructive. Pages are rebuilt into flat pixels, so there's no text layer left under the black to recover, and the original metadata is stripped. • The whole toolkit, all local: redact, sign, merge, compress, convert — plus on-device OCR so you can auto-redact scanned documents too. It even works with AI agents (via the emerging WebMCP standard) without the file ever leaving the tab. • No account, no email. Free for small jobs; $19/yr for everything, or $49 once. Since it's closed-source, you don't have to trust me — the privacy is verifiable in about 10 seconds (Wi-Fi off or watch the Network tab). I'd genuinely love feedback, especially edge cases where the redaction or the no-upload guarantee could be stress-tested. 🎉 Free lifetime license for Product Hunt: use code PRODUCTHUNT at the lifetime checkout (first 150, through July 31). One question for you: what's the most sensitive thing you've had to redact or share — and did you trust the tool you used?

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Redact PDFs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Redact PDFs in your browser — nothing is uploaded